Category: Faith

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Resilience

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Prompt for Week #113 November 23, 2024 – November 29, 2024

Title: God-given Strength

Six Words: Stronger than my pain–God-given resilience

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Resilience” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #113 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week ##113 (Nov 23, 2024 – Nov 29, 2024)

Resilience

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My contribution to this week’s theme wasn’t too hard to come up with–I often say, “This steadfastness has to be heaven-sent.” So, I just had to think of a few words that would best describe how I feel about resilience and how it best describes my character regarding it.

I hope you all will participate. Head on over to Shweta’s page for the full breakdown! Happy Wednesday, beautiful people!

What If the Stranger is God?

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A Book Review

The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

I doubt I have to say how much I love Mitch Albom. At this point, many of you should be well aware. Lol! If you’re a good writer, I look forward to your work. If you’re a great writer, I pine over it.

Mitch has proven to be a great writer; the older he gets, the better he becomes. I hope I’ll be reading his work for many years to come.

The Stranger in the Lifeboat is such a touching story. It made me think about the many times I doubted God after asking for help and for signs about things of which I was unsure, and God never left my side even during my faltering faith.

He remained. He is.

Here is the review for this incredible piece of literature:

“God Gifts Us What We Need

And He does so when we need it. This book shook me to my core. Ten people, shipwrecked and forced to spend multiple days with each other on a lifeboat miss out on the opportunity to live because they would not believe.

How can you read that and not be stunned? After a glorious yacht (The Galaxy), owned by multimillionaire, Jason Lambert, explodes, he and nine other people are tasked with a challenge from the Lord: believe in him, vocalize it, and they would be saved.

As I read through the pages and learned the stories of each character’s life, I had hoped that someone would gather up everyone and create an atmosphere devoted to believing the Lord was on board with them, and they could be saved.

I was wrong. No one believed hard enough. And those who did believe, only did so when sprinkles of miracles were placed in order by the Lord, Him/Herself.

Everyone wanted to get out of the situation in which they had been placed, yet no one had the heart and faith to rally the other beings so a longer life could be extended to each of them.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll shake your head in total disbelief at the things that occur in this book.

Mitch Albom has crafted a fictional story that feels real and will stun the reader without a doubt. This is the kind of book you read and then tell a friend to tell a friend and so on until a long line of avid readers have connected through these words.

I truly enjoyed The Stranger in the Lifeboat, and I know you will, too.”

I believe we are given helpful tools when we least expect them. This book was/is my helpful tool.

Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?

Jernee Timid Waits Patiently for Some Ice.

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Jernee Timid Loadholt Waits Patiently for Some Ice on a Lovely Sunday Morning.

Because, even after all these years, my sweet baby still loves ice, and she will wait patiently for some every single time she notices that I have something “cold” to drink.

She’s so incredibly smart, and she keeps me on my toes to this very day.

I thought, maybe all of you, could use a smile or two. Happy Sunday.

Peace and blessings.

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Believe

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Prompt for Week #111 (Nov 9, 2024 – Nov 15, 2024): BELIEVE

Title: Not By the Hands of Man

Six Words: A H I G H E R Power will save US.

I have missed actively participating in the Six Word Story Prompt (hosted by another blogger/Writer who no longer blogs). Years ago, it’s how I met so many other bloggers/writers/creatives, and I still love a good six-word story, so it is only right that I participate in Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Believe” and here are the prompt details:

Welcome to Week #111 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week #111 (Nov 9, 2024 – Nov 15, 2024)

Believe

Click here for the 6WSP image.

I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!

P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My six-word contribution is above. I fully believe the worst is ahead, yet the best is to come. We cannot depend on man. Man will never save us. If our faith, trust, and commitment are to/for man, we are doomed. I hope you will participate in the prompt and lend your very own six-word story to the theme, Believe.

Peace and blessings, beautiful people.

For You, My Favorite Veteran.

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Karen & I, April 2024 (my birthday weekend and trip back home to Savannah, Georgia).

I’ll never forget that morning
You called me in tears . . .
Painful sobs hit my ears
As I struggled to open my
Eyes and listen to your words.

You thought something
Happened to me–I was unsafe
Or hurt or about to do something
To myself I hadn’t run by
God first, and upon hearing
The pain in your voice, it shook
Me awake.

I could never leave this earth
In a way that would cause
You to worry about my actions.
You deserve full reports and
Regular updates.
We grew from teenagers running
Away from home to adults
Running to our homes and
Love looks good on us.

My beautiful friend, my sister . . .
Thank you for your service–for
The fearless enlisting that would
Swallow twenty years of your life
And have me stand back in awe
Of your choice to serve a nation
That still hates us.

I am proud of you.
You have been an inspiration
And a joy in my life that
Ages like fine wine.

I would war for you without
Hesitation–throw on the full
Armor of God if you were ever
In danger–blood doesn’t bind
Us, but love does.
Experience does.
Grief does.
Healing does.

And if the world doesn’t
Recognize your beauty in
My presence, it will be force-fed
Stories about your existence
To acknowledge it because
It’s the right thing to do.

You survived a system for
Over two decades that never
Had you as its highest priority,
And you lived to recount the details.
You are my hero and forever
Will be.
Happy Veterans Day, Karen!

And Happy Veterans Day to all veterans. Thank you for your service.

Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?

“You Learn To Accept Things” Damon Wayans

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I’m ignoring the elephant in the room for now . . .

Damon K. Wayans, Sr., speaks briefly about accepting things and expecting nothing in a recent interview.

What Damon has shared in this YouTube short from a recent interview will remain with me for years to come.

How apropos is this right now at this very moment?!

Millions of people will have to accept what has occurred, endure it as best as we can, and eventually come out on top.

Hold on. Be strong. Don’t ever let go.

Peace and blessings.